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Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians - Vol. 1
Includes: Abel - Jacobi

Book by Donald R. Franceschetti; Marshall Cavendish, 1999

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Mathematicians--Biography--Encyclopedias

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...as much as the work of the ancient Greek mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus, which is included...university, Bolzano studied un- der the mathematicians Stanislaus Wydra and Franz Joseph...different from the practice of most mathematicians at that time, who relied on whether...
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians - Vol. 2
Includes: Janovskaja - Zermelo

Book by Donald R. Franceschetti; Marshall Cavendish, 1999

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Mathematicians--Biography--Encyclopedias

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...plex than was generally believed, even by expe- rienced mathematicians. In 1861, he constructed a continuous function that does...irrational numbers is a problem that dates back to the ancient Greek mathematician Eudoxus. Weierstrass developed a theory of irrational...
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The Great Mathematicians

Book by Herbert Westren Turnbull; New York University Press, 1961

Subjects:

Mathematicians--Biography, Mathematics--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...illustration that would please the mechanicians more than the mathematicians. Somewhere on his pages the following table appears...yet been grasped. Napier was looking with the eyes of a Greek-trained mathematician upon this notation as upon a new plaything. He saw in...
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The French Mathematician

Book by Tom Petsinis; Walker & Company, 1998

Subjects:

Fiction, France--Fiction, Galois, Evariste--1811-1832--Fiction, Mathematicians--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...further develop my ideas, put them in a book, make a name as a mathematician. Recently, in such a mood, I revised two papers on pure...of equations, for after the Latin alphabet there was the Greek, and others... But this was not my aim. I then went on...
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Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century

Book by Alexander Macfarlane; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1916

Subjects:

Mathematicians--Great Britain, Mathematics--Great Britain--History--19th Century

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...Blackstones Commentaries; hence the given name of the future mathematician. His mother was Mary Murphy, an accomplished and clever...the classics; in one year he read a large portion of the Greek and Latin authors commonly studied. His tutor was impressed...

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Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam

Journal article by George Saliba; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999

Subjects:

Architecture--History, Artisans--History, Islam--History, Mathematicians--History, The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Ibrahim b. Sinan, theoretical mathematicians rarely taught artisans directly...philosophical tradition that was Greek in origin and was later developed...rationalism that derived from the Greek tradition, and tried in every...between the artisan and the mathematician, or on the specific contextualization...
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Huffman, Carl A. AArchytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher, and Mathematician King

Journal article by Philip Rousseau; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2006

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Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Pythagorean, Philosopher, and Mathematician King. by Philip Rousseau HUFFMAN...fragments are presented in Greek (with apparatus) and in English...reputation. Again, there are Greek and Latin extracts, many with...have an excellent index of Greek words and phrases and an index...
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Developments in Demand Forecasting from Ancients Greeks to Present

Journal article by Larry Lapide; The Journal of Business Forecasting Methods & Systems, Vol. 16, 1997

Subjects:

Demand, Forecasting, History, Trends, Uncertainty

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...Developments in Demand Forecasting from Ancients Greeks to Present by Larry Lapide Peter L...evolutionary path that started from the Ancient Greeks beliefs that one did not have to forecast...As Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a great mathematician, said, "Nature has established patterns...
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The Romance of a Platonic Crossing

Journal article by Bernard Freydberg; Philosophy Today, Vol. 54, 2010

Subjects:

Computer science, Mathematicians, Mathematics, Philosophers, Philosophy, Theology

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...henceforth L B) are both mathematicians of the first rank...course - from the mathematicians and return it to the...vouchsafed - was not a mathematician, although he earned...classicist, especially of Greek matters, that pertains...hearkening to the Greek poiesis, production...his beloved: The mathematicians patterns, like the...
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A Brief History of Algebraic Notation

Journal article by Lynn Stallings; School Science and Mathematics, Vol. 100, 2000

Subjects:

Algebra--History, Mathematical notation--History

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...words without symbols. Greek mathematician Diophantus was one of...along with prose. Indian mathematicians developed a syncopated...algebra will show why mathematicians continued to abbreviate...Baumgart, 1969). The Arab mathematician Mohammed ibn Musa al...explanations were the Greeks conceptual difficulties...

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People Are Important: A Mathematician's Faith

Magazine article by Dirk J. Struik; Monthly Review, Vol. 49, January 1998

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Einstein, Albert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Freedom--Analysis, Liberty--Analysis, Mathematicians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Proverbs--Analysis, The Communist Manifesto (Book)--Analysis

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...People Are Important: A Mathematicians Faith. by Dirk J. Struik...again a translation of the Greek "agape," which means...That is the faith of a mathematician. I am not speaking as a mathematician, though, but as a common...
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Alexandria the Great: On the Mediterranean at the Western Edge of the Nile Delta Stands the Most Important and Enduring of All the Many Cities Founded by Alexander. Though Much of Its Material Past Has Been Destroyed or Lies Underwater, Alexandria's Reputation as the Intellectual Powerhouse of the Classical World, Fusing Greek, Egyptian and Roman Culture, Lives On

Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 59, October 2009

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Alexander the Great--History, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--Appreciation, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--History, Greek history, to 330 (Ancient period)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of the city-states founded by the Greeks, though it was far from the crucible of Greek culture. Strictly, there was no such...god by many of his new as well as his Greek subjects. Some Greeks, however, found the idea of divine...throughout Egypt, to natives as well as Greeks, as did their most impressive silver...imperial coinages, being the first Greek issues to depict a living rulers image...
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Birth of Pierre De Fermat

Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 51, August 2001

Subjects:

Descartes, Rene--Conduct of life, Mathematicians--Conduct of life, de Fermat, Pierre--Conduct of life

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...margin of his copy of a text by a Greek mathematician of the third century AD, Diophantus...big enough for him to write it in. Mathematicians performed prodigies of mental gymnastics...an intensely reticent part-time mathematician, a lawyer by profession, who published...
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He Lived with Numbers

Magazine article by Michael R. Williams; World and I, Vol. 16, May 2001

Subjects:

Mathematicians--Works, Philosophers--Works, Phythagoras--Works

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...Pythagoras was one of the earliest Greek philosopher/mathematicians, and few contemporary records...difference is that the ancient Greeks maintained a largely oral...He could recite the great Greek epics about the battles for...many parts of the world. The Greeks began their tradition of philosopher...
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William Jones and His Circle: The Man Who Invented the Concept of Pi: In 1706 a Little-Known Mathematics Teacher William Jones First Used a Symbol to Represent the Platonic Concept of Pi, an Ideal That in Numerical Terms Can Be Approached, but Never Reached. Patricia Rothman Discusses Jones's Significance among His Contemporaries and the Unique Archive That Forms His Legacy

Magazine article by Patricia Rothman; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009

Subjects:

Jones, William E. (American mathematician)--Works, Pi--History, Teachers--Works, pi (Number)--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...different way by the rector and mathematician, William Oughtred (c...the periphery, hence the Greek equivalent pi of our letter...library were acquired by the mathematician John Collins (1625-83...leading English and foreign mathematicians of the day, drafting mathematical...Newton and the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz (1646...

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Eureka! Green Queen Uses Ancient Greek Genius to Power Windsor; (... and We Mean Archimedes, Not Her 90-Year-Old Husband, Philip)

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 8, 2011

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Turbines

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Eureka! Green Queen Uses Ancient Greek Genius to Power Windsor; (... and We Mean Archimedes...the turbines look like the screw developed by the Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse. He invented the screw...
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Eureka! Green Queen Uses Ancient Greek Genius to Power Windsor; (... and We Mean Archimedes, Not Her 90-Year-Old Husband, Philip)

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 8, 2011

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Turbines

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Eureka! Green Queen Uses Ancient Greek Genius to Power Windsor; (... and We Mean Archimedes...the turbines look like the screw developed by the Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse. He invented the screw...
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Why Rachel Didn't Need a Stand-In to Become a Greek Nude

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 19, 2009

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Need a Stand-In to Become a Greek Nude. Byline: Enda Feeney RACHEL...Weisz, who stars as 4th century Greek philosopher and astronomer Hypatia...who lived from 370415AD, was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. She spent her...
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Boris Johnson Ten of the Greatest Ancient Greeks

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...fought between an alliance Greek city states and the Persian...being vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held the Persians for days...formidable than mankind. The Greeks realised that while the world...on to Plato, the classical Greek scholar, philosopher and mathematician. Simply put, he and his...
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36 Points and No Passes. Mr Gibson, You Are the Champion

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 10, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...specialist subject, the Great Mathematicians. Then I did well enough...Dublin? 2. Which German mathematician who died in 1891 said...his paradoxes who did the Greek mathematician Zeno of Elea suggest could...In 1873 which French mathematician published the first proof...

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Euclid , Greek Mathematician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

EUCLID , Greek mathematician yoo klid, fl. 300 b.c., Greek mathematician. Little is known of his life other than the fact that he taught at Alexandria, being associated with the school that grew up there in the late 4th cent. b.c. He...
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Hero , Greek Mathematician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HERO , Greek mathematician Greek mathematician: see Heron of Alexandria . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Autolycus , Greek Astronomer and Mathematician

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AUTOLYCUS , Greek astronomer and mathematician otol ik s, fl. 4th cent. b.c., astronomer and mathematician of Pitane in Aeolis. Of his two extant...to be the oldest completely preserved Greek treatise on a mathematical subject...
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Pappus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PAPPUS pap s, fl. c.300, Greek mathematician of Alexandria. He recorded and enlarged on the results of...commentary on Ptolemys Almagest. See T. L. Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics (1931...
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Apollonius of Perga

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA fl. 247 205 b.c., Greek mathematician of the Alexandrian school. He produced a treatise...terms parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse. In his works Greek mathematics reached its culmination...

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